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A program in which the county would purchase land development rights from property owners might be more hype than help

Some 40 percent of land in Bedford County is farmland, according to the most recent census by the U.S. Census of Agriculture.

But that is a shrinking figure.

From 1997 to 2002 the county lost 8,000 acres, almost 4 percent, of its farmland. Over that same time the county lost 165 farms, 11 percent of its total, which is well above the state average. Across the state, during that five-year period, Virginia lost 1.5 percent of its farmland and 3.6 percent of its farms.

A new census is due to be taken and those figures are expected to continue the trend.

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